"Why, What Put That in Your Head?"
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OK, let’s see. I finished the latest season of Drag Race All Stars. I skipped the finale, I already knew who won (I like her) and I don’t care about lipsync battles. I will say that putting Silky Nutmeg Ganache on my TV again was as irritating as I expected it to be. Just started … Continue reading Current TV Rotation
Just random stuff up to which I have been over the last few weeks. My buddy Renee had volunteered me to host a Jaws viewing party. I was all for that. I had seen it when it was first out, when I was twelve. I’d already read the book. (on the beach at Rehoboth) Anyway, … Continue reading Viewing Parties
I worked from home yesterday, but that doesn’t have much to do with anything. There’s a lot going on in my job right now (unusual) and I’m finding that I’m getting wildly different projects mixed up with each other, which is not helpful. Since I’m leaving at the end of the year, I’m doing knowledge … Continue reading Weird f*ckin day
So, it’s official. HR has been notified. My supervisor, his boss and our VP have been notified. My project lead and team have been notified. And my reporting team as well. I’m retiring at the end of the year! Actually, official date is Dec 4th, which is the end of the week after Thanksgiving. This … Continue reading Retirement
The one-person show Every Brilliant Thing, which was brought to Broadway this season as a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe (who was, by all reports, amazing) has continued on, replacing Radcliffe with Mariska Hargitay and now with Tracee Ellis Ross, who will be closing the show this weekend. It had sounded like an intriguing idea – … Continue reading Every Brilliant Thing
As anyone knows who is privileged enough (*koffkoff*) to have me whine at them, I spent quite a lot of planning and effort gearing myself up for an early-in-the-year audition for a production of Sweeney Todd – and then didn’t get cast. But almost immediately, while I was doing a concert of Trial by Jury … Continue reading BB66
So, this weekend was the Plan B version of the “get out of town” weekend to Connecticut that had gotten torpedoed. I decided to do an overnight in New Hope, PA – hadn’t been in many years, had never been to Lambertville even though it’s a five-minute walk across a bridge (honestly, last times I … Continue reading New Hope and Princeton
I do spend an awful lot of my life thinking, “oh, I should take a power walk every day” or “I should practice the piano every day” or “I should do some of the organization projects in the random tote bags in the utility room every weekend” or whatever. And of course it never gets … Continue reading Get to it
I was 11 years old for the Bicentennial and, oddly enough, was out of the country for the actual day. We were taking a typically weird Peterson vacation. Mom was in South America for work, and Dad joined her in Bolivia (I think). Sam and I stayed with family friends, then flew (by ourselves, which … Continue reading Semiquincentennial
I know I explain this every year, but a couple of factoids: Given these factoids, I long ago realized that it was useful to volunteer to produce a Society concert of whatever show my group was going to do at the Festival that summer, as a dry run. I started doing this just for the … Continue reading Hark, hark, they assemble, these fiends of the night!
*waves* Hi, everyone, I’m still here. I’ve just been hip-deep in rehearsals and performances ever since I got back from my mid-May trip. And there will be substantial bloggitude about that, no fear. But we just finished our two-night run of Bastien und Bastienne and Le 66 (aka “BB66”) and they went delightfully well and … Continue reading Wowee
For years, my (now former) upstairs neighbors Josh and Mariah and (Charles and) I have gotten together for pizza (or whatever) while we watch the big awards shows – Oscars and Tonys certainly, the Emmys sometimes. This has become more of a logistical issue since they moved to Manhattan. I’d actually been pondering trying to … Continue reading Tonys
